In the Orkney Islands, archaeologists close the chapter on a legendary excavation, capping two decades of remarkable ...

To simplify things, we break the Stone Age into three distinct periods: the Paleolithic Period, or the Old Stone Age; Mesolithic Period, or Mid Stone Age; and Neolithic Period, or New Stone Age.

Researchers have determined that a collection of 12,000-year-old tiny stone objects found at a Stone Age site in the Jordan ...

The hilltop campsite, which may have been used as a base for hunting, contains numerous Stone Age remains, including flint tools and bones.

Perhaps hoping to gain the blessing of the stone-age hunter-gatherers that dwelt along the east coast 30,000 years ago, visitors to the Baxian Caves (八仙洞) during the 1970s would grab a handful of soil ...

Archaeologists in Ukraine uncovered the charred remains of a Stone Age family, offering a grim glimpse ... creating a 5,700-year-old forensic mystery. Despite the evidence of violent injuries ...

The Red Lady of Paviland is one of the oldest skeletons found in Britain, dating from around 30,000 years ago.

Awls were small, pointed hand tools employed in both the Old and New World to slice fibers for thread and fishing nets, and to punch holes in leather and wood. Stone Age peoples may also have ...

An archaeological dig at a site earmarked for housing has uncovered more than 300 stone age tools and artefacts. The 9,000-year-old site, on Castle Hill, Rhuddlan, Denbighshire, is "on a par with ...